



I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story
Who suffered for my sake;
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The heroic of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd History's pages,
And Time's great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
'Twixt Nature's heart and mine;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truth from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,
And fulfill God's grand design.
I live to hail that season
By gifted ones foretold,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
-George Linnaeus Banks-
5 comments:
That is great! What is that in the last picture? John and I have bets- I'm saying batting.
Those are hilarous! We don't go to those lengths for a white Christmas. We just wait for it to actually snow every 30 years!
How funny!
We saw you in the Glenn Beck video today. How fun that you were there. You will love having a girl. I am so in love with mine.
have 'em spend a week at my house shoveling snow, they won't think it's so cute.
Patti..that is Hilarious:) how funny it is that people MAKE their snow BUT at least their snow isnt cold-haha!! im glad you got a pic of that..i wasnt sure the lengths people go to make snow:)
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